Feature Pack 8: The Brazil store is deprecated. Most features demonstrated in the Brazil store are available in the Aurora store.

Brazil starter store

The provides all the pages and features necessary for a functioning consumer direct
online store for the Brazilian market. It is designed and contains features to meet the market
demands of Brazil, ensuring increased sales to Brazilian customers.

The contains Brazil-specific address fields in the registration and checkout flows and
enables customers to register with the store as either a business or a consumer. It includes support
for third-party payment providers for Internet banking (punch-out payments), Software Express
payments, and Boleto payments. In addition, the supports
installment payments. The payment type window in the enables
customers to view the available credit card and installment payment options for a selected item and
displays the featured installment option for each type of credit card in boldface.

The contains a full set of consumer direct features, including user registration,
catalog browsing, promotions, and targeted marketing. The store contains rich interactions,
including the product quick info window and a streamlined checkout flow. The store is fully
accessible, enabling customers to browse the storefront and place an order by using only a keyboard
as their primary input device. Technological features include search engine optimization, support
for multiple web browsers and platforms, and options to accommodate different flows depending on
varying customer needs.

The demonstrates best practices in store development with WebSphere Commerce, and can
act as a base for implementing Brazilian storefronts. It uses Rich Internet Application (RIA)
technologies such as Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) and Dojo widgets to provide customers
with an interactive and rich shopping experience. It addresses many common web customization issues,
by using CSS and DIV tags for page layout, design, and styling, rather than overusing table elements
throughout the page. The store can be used as a stand-alone store by using the consumer direct
business model or as an asset store in the Extended Sites business model.

The delivers feature-rich and interactive web applications that are compatible across
platforms and browsers by taking advantage of Ajax and Dojo widget technologies. Ajax technologies
enable web applications to retrieve data from the server asynchronously, while the browsing session
remains intact. That is, refresh areas are present in pages for areas where content can be changed
on the page, such as a shopping cart. Dojo widgets enable the store users to dynamically interact
with the pages, such as adding the ability to quickly view product information, rather than
navigating to the specific individual product pages.

WebSphere Commerce services are used in the for all
marketing, member, and order component interactions. Product attributes are retrieved using catalog
services. However, the store uses data beans and commands when required, as all runtime
functionality is not available by using services alone.

Feature comparison

Catalogs

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Madisons starter store

Administrative tooling

Management Center

Management Center

Master and sales catalogs

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Categories, products, SKUs, bundles, and prebuilt kits

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Note: When products in a category or subcategory have multiple
SKUs, the does not determine the featured promotions or installment options for these products
based on a combination of the SKUs. Instead, the promotion and installment option for the first
product in the subcategory is used.

Globalization support for stores to display bi-directional languages. The
store uses a locale-specific common1_1iw_iL.css Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
file where the directionality attribute can be specified